Apple Watch Series 4 Stuck in Boot Loop After Reset

Hey nabil40,

It sounds like your Apple Watch is not starting up correctly.

Try restarting the Apple Watch normally, and if that doesn't work, try force restarting. The steps for a normal restart and force restart can be found here: How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support.

If that doesn't help, consider unpairing the Apple Watch then try setting it up again. When you unpair the Apple Watch, the data will be erased from your Apple Watch but a backup is also created. You can still make a manual backup using these steps: Back up your Apple Watch.

When you're ready, use these steps to unpair and erase the Apple Watch: Unpair your Apple Watch and iPhone. Then pair and set it up again: Set up your Apple Watch.

Keep us updated.

Hey nabil40,

Thanks for reaching back out. If you erased the content and settings as outlined in the above article after unpairing the Apple Watch, and if it's still stuck on the Apple logo, reach out for additional assistance here: Get Support.

Have a great day.

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We have 2 watches and two phones. We’ve tried everything at this point. Factory wipe and restart. Synchronized as new watch. No apps. We swapped the watches. It still doing random boot loops. i don’t think it’s a hardware issue.

on latest update for phone and watch.

to get Apple to fix takes over a week for an appointment.

sucks.

It’s definitely software related. It hasn’t happened to me again since my last post. I just left it dead for about a week and charged it up and it started working again. I just updated to 7 as well and was worried it would happen again.

This is very concerning. I am so glad I found this community post. It really bums me out to see people having the exact same issue, because I know how frustrating it has been for me.

The part that doesn’t make sense when you try to think about it all is why are there days when its worse than others? Some days I will have it do the power cycle zero times (that I am aware of), some days I have it happen a few times. Then there are days like today where its basically been in a boot loop for the last 7 hours. If I kept it on a charger I imagine it would happen forever.

Like I said, I was able to brute force the watch to unpair from the phone, and I reset the watch and set up as a new watch (only allowing it to pull health data and such as needed). When you do that, it seems to fix the watch. Mine hasn’t done it again since. But I know it will start doing it over the next few days or week etc.

I don’t know what else we can do, it just doesn’t seem fair that we have to wait for an update when this is there problem. They should honestly give us all brand new series 6 watches that obviously aren’t having these issues, or at least give us series 6 watches to use until they solve this issue with the series 4.

Hey everyone on here that is probably still experiencing issues. I had the chance to talk with an Apple engineer tonight. They are supposedly “aware” of something that might be causing this and are looking into it. Supposedly based on all the logs and data people like us have been supplying them with.

I do have a question for any of you. Do you guys happen to have Wyze cameras and are using the Wyze app? I was told that app sending notifications to my watch might be part of the problem. Basically, any notification that sends larger images to the watch.

This sounds off to me since the power cycles don’t seem related to receiving notifications, its very random and I definitely get notifications with pictures fine most of the time. I was just curious if we somehow all did have Wyze cams and the Wyze app maybe this was something we would single out.

I have no idea......I am just pulling my hair out at this point. I hope that maybe it is something stupid and easy as this, but I still want Apple to fix it obviously. There solution is to stop using the watch how I want to use it? How it was intended to be used? Unacceptable.

I appreciate everybody continuing to share their experiences. I personally don’t have the Wyse app but do have Nest do same type of thing. If I can get my watch up and running, I’ll turn that off and see if it makes a difference.

Of course! I am not done with this until we have a resolution from Apple directly.

If you need help getting the watch going, I advise my method. Brute force an unpairing. What I mean by that is, get the watch on, even if it will only get into the infinite boot loop that is fine. Get your phone close by and try to time clicking unpair with one of the boot loops. I have had TONS of luck getting the watch to actually unpair even when in boot loop if I can get this timed well. Once unpaired, just set it back up (I usually choose new watch), and then change all those settings to see how it works.